SoW is a great track for slow cars to be able to dice with cars that would normally be leaving them behind.

Do I want it to be my home track? Kind of. I always have fun at SoW.

SOW is a good track, with a reputation it does not deserve. The chicane is fear inducing and for good reason. Few cars would survive an off to the right, and the crest would upset all but the most well set up vehicles.

Being 6 miles away, Sonoma is now my home track. Not a bad one either!

Amir -

I can't claim Sonoma as my home track because it is nearly 400 miles from my home. But it is certainly my favorite road course that I have ever driven. You are a lucky pup to consider Sonoma your home track. Please don't spit the guts and engine oil of your RX-7 all over my favorite track . . .

Followed by the old loop of Reno-Fernley (which I don't think is even used anymore). Which is pretty similar to WSIR in a lot of ways (fast, flat out), I suppose.

I ran the original Reno-Fernley track several years ago, a couple of times. I know what you are talking about. A little like WSIR, but very bumpy, and with a really crazy "toilet" bowl, leading into the last turn before the front straight. IMHO, WSIR is clearly a better track. Never have driven the newer track at Reno-Fernley . . .

As an aside, I was a very new open track driver the first time I drove Reno-Fernley about 10 years ago. My female driving instructor managed to spin my '04 Evo XIII RS coming onto the front straight, with me in the passenger seat at a very fast track. Big spin, holy crap . . .

My schedule is pretty open... I'd definitely drive out to say hi and see how the testing is going.
(I don't have a log book and am pretty sure my non-caged Miata won't be allowed for test days, though I should call the track and confirm one way or the other!)

Richard -- sadly, the bumps only got worse and worse at RFR -- I had heard second hand that it was the way the base for the track was done. The "new" portions i suspect you'd hate because they are a lot like SoW.

But the entrance from the long straight into the esses... that was a lot of fun going into there and running the esses at over 110mph -- if you got it wrong...it got VERY wrong quickly.

Some day I'll race WSIR and probably love it for the same reasons. Just haven't had the chance.

I agree with the the sentiment that Big Willow is a "three sessions and it's boring" track.

But I give it credit for being the most dangerous track I've driven in terms of driving a theoretically optimal lap, only because of T8 into T9. Usually I think 10.01/10ths means an overdriven turn, in this context it seems to mean "fly over the retaining wall". Trailbraking from 130mph up to the edge of loose dirt, in a decreasing radius context, is nuts.

I have seen some fast laps that seem to seperate T8 exit from T9 entry, but I don't know how much that unpacks the risk of kaboom.

I havent hit Chuckwalla yet. My street bike friends have been nagging me to go with them but Im having too much fun in my car right now to put work into my bike. It will be the next track i go to after the 10/24 event at SOV.

HOLY SH!T another Colorado member!?!? This is mine as well, incredible track great elevation changes, challenging corners and a decent straight to stretch your legs. Also relatively new-ish and they continue to improve on it with adding curbing etc......Also coming from Cali (home track was ACS) it's great to have an OPEN track day.....tons of driving time and dirt cheap in comparison